Chapter 20 lessons 1 & 2 Test Review Flashcards
A renewal of interest in Greek and Roman culture and arts
Renaissance
Related to worldly things
Secular
Belief in the worth of individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
Humanism
The everyday language of the people in a certain region
Vernacular
Having to do with a town or city
Urban
A soldier who fights for money rather that loyalty to a country
Mercenary
The art of making peaceful agreements with other countries
Diplomacy
The ruler of an Italian city-state
Doge
A leading family in Florence during the Renaissance
Medici
Scholar who studied Roman writers such as Cicero
Petrach
What are three types plays that the English playwright William wrote?
comedies, tragedies, and histories
What are 2 plays that William Shakespeare wrote
Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet
During the Renaissance there wasa rebirth of interest in______
art and learning
_____ was the most famous Italian Renaissance city
Florence
Because of Italy’s long coastlines, Italian city-states became wealthy through ______
trade